Hey, I want to delete some apps in order to have more memory on my macbook. Do i simply drag the app to the trash and delete it, and thats it? I know on a pc you have to do the uninstall program thing, but is there a feature like that for a mac?
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Sorry, HD space. So moving the app to the trash will completely remove everything associated with the app from the HD?
No! Don't do that. You'll have vagrant parts of them all over the place taking up space and being useless!
There's three or four utilities out there that will cleanly delete your apps. I use AppZapper myself but I recently read about a free one that sounded like it was a little better. Sorry, can't remember the name.
Here's AppZapper: http://www.appzapper.com/
http://www.appzapper.com/appzapper_demo.mov <--
There's three or four utilities out there that will cleanly delete your apps. I use AppZapper myself but I recently read about a free one that sounded like it was a little better. Sorry, can't remember the name.
Here's AppZapper: http://www.appzapper.com/
http://www.appzapper.com/appzapper_demo.mov <--
No! Don't do that. You'll have vagrant parts of them all over the place taking up space and being useless!
There's three or four utilities out there that will cleanly delete your apps. I use AppZapper myself but I recently read about a free one that sounded like it was a little better. Sorry, can't remember the name.
Here's AppZapper: http://www.appzapper.com/
http://www.appzapper.com/appzapper_demo.mov <--
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That's not necessarily true. Many apps will completely uninstall with no traces left, simply by dragging them to the Trash. Some apps leave user preference files behind, so if you reinstall at some point, it will remember your customized preferences. These files usually take up VERY little space, and they're not "vagrant parts" "all over the place". While someone can use a 3rd party app like AppDelete or AppZapper, etc., it's certainly not required.
appdelete? how about Cleanapp? which is prefered: appdelete, appzapper, or cleanapp?
My point is, 3rd party apps like those aren't a requirement. Mac OS X isn't like Windows, where a massive clean-up is required after uninstalling an app. There is no Windows Registry and most apps keep all their required files bundled in the .app file, rather than scattering them all over the file system, like in Windows. The only thing left behind in most cases is either nothing, or user preference files.
Ok, so if i have a 2GB macbook and it says I have 143.37GB available, how much spaced have i used?
For neat freaks like me, it is nice to tidy things up when you delete a program and App Zapper seems to do a nice job of that.
It depends on how much space you started with, of course. You could have 143.37GB available on a 200GB drive, or 143.37GB available on a 500GB drive. You can right-click on your Macintosh HD in Finder and "Get Info"
It says: Capacity: 211.88GB, Available:143.37GB, Used:68.5GB on disk(73,555,640,320 bytes)
Yeah so you probably have a 250GB Hard drive. Out of that, you used 68.5GB of space and therefore, 143GB is left to use.
That's what he said:
It is what he said, but it was pointless to state the obvious, no?
Ahhhh, I see what you're saying. Well, if you want to talk about pointless posts, there are probably about 943,255 out there that could be deleted!